BOYLE, Alta. – An eagle-eyed motorist may have saved a truck driver’s life after spotting a vehicle that had plunged down an embankment in northeast Alberta.
The motorist contacted RCMP Thursday night and they confirm a truck drove off the highway near Caslan, about 170 kilometres northeast of Edmonton, and down the embankment where it became lodged in trees.
Mounties say the truck was barely visible and was located about 15 metres from the roadway.
The 54-year-old driver was non-responsive, but revived after he was pulled from the wreckage.
He was taken to hospital in serious condition.
“If not for the attention and quick thinking of the passing motorist, emergency services may not have been able to reach the injured male in a timely fashion,” the RCMP said in a news release.
Police are investigating.
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